1807 in science
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The year 1807 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- March 29 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid which Carl Friedrich Gauss names Vesta.[1]
[edit] Chemistry
- Potassium and sodium are isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.
- The use of fulminate in firearms is patented by by the Rev. Alexander John Forsyth of Scotland.[2]
[edit] Geology
- The Geological Society is founded in London; among the more prominent founders are William Babington, James Parkinson, Humphry Davy and George Bellas Greenough.
[edit] Mathematics
- William Wallace proves that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable, later known as the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem.[3]
[edit] Medicine
- Samuel Hahnemann first introduces the term 'homeopathy' in an essay, "Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice", published in Versammlung der Hufelandische medicinisch-chirurgischen Gesellschaft.[4]
[edit] Technology
- August 17 - Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat makes her first trip from New York to Albany.
- William Cubitt patents self-regulating sails for windmills.[5]
- Henry Maudslay patents an improved table engine.
- William Hyde Wollaston patents the camera lucida.[6]
[edit] Publications
- Alexander von Humboldt's Le Voyage aux Régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, par Alexandre de Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland begins publication.
- Thomas Young's A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts published.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 28 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
- November 14 - Auguste Laurent, chemist (d. 1853)
[edit] Deaths
- April 4 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
[edit] References
- ^ "4 Vesta". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=4. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "Rifled Breach Loader". Globalsecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/rifle-history.htm. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Stewart, Ian (1996). From Here to Infinity (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780192832023.
- ^ Gumpert, Martin (1945). Hahnemann: the Adventurous Career of a Medical Rebel (English-language ed.). New York: Fischer. p. 130.
- ^ Brown, Peter. "Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110716105157/http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Hammond, John; Austin, Jill (1987). The camera lucida in art and science. Taylor & Francis.
